Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.

I’m not really book-smart.

Surely wisdom will come as we listen to learn from children, parents, partners, neighbors, Church leaders, and the Lord.

I’ve never thought about songwriting as a weapon. I’ve only thought about it as a way to help me get through love and loss and sadness and loneliness and growing up.

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

I think I’m pretty smart. I think I’m pretty clever. But there’s a lot that you hone in on when you finish your education.

Development of outlook naturally begins with a respect for God… Reverence to God and reverence for one’s neighbor and reverence for oneself as a servant of God.

It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.

Most Africans don’t get to see these wild animals at all. Once they see and learn about them, they are much more likely to become involved in protecting the environment.

I don’t look at a man who’s expert in one area as a specialist. I look at him as a rookie in ten other areas.

It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.

Newspaper readership is still growing in India.

Homework’s hard. Especially math. My kids joke with me. They tell me they have homework. I say, ‚Okay.‘ And then I sit down and they say, ‚It’s math.‘ ‚No! Not math! English, history, anything!‘

A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.

So we know that it’s not enough for us to simply encourage more people to study abroad. We also need to make sure that they can actually afford it.

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature’s delight.

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man’s estate, is the gift of education.

What I love best in life is new starts.

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.

I am pro-education. I’m just anti the system.

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.

Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.

It’s none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

There are thousands of boys being wasted daily to our country through being left to become characterless, and, therefore, useless wasters, a misery to themselves and an eyesore and a danger to the nation. They could be saved if only the right surroundings or environment were given to them at the receptive time of their lives.

Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.

Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.

Only the educated are free.

Religion, any religion, no matter what sort of wonderful religion, never be universal. So now education is universal, so we have to sort of find ways and means through education system, from kindergarten up to university level, to make awareness these good things, the values, inner values.

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

China has to go along with world trends. That’s democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward.

We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors.

On the first day of school, my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an English name and said that from thenceforth that was the name we would answer to in school. This was the custom among Africans in those days and was undoubtedly due to the British bias of our education.

In this knowledge-worker age, it’s now increasingly tied to doing well in school so you can get into better grad schools so you can get better jobs – so the pressure to do well is really high.

I’ve learned not to look at reviews. Early on, I did. I was always curious.

Only stupid people are changed by success.

His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.

I can’t usually stomach a project after I finish it, but for those days and weeks and months that it’s new to me, I do listen to it, and it might change over time, but it’s about function.

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

I wanted to race cars. I didn’t like school, and all I wanted to do was work on cars. But right before I graduated, I got into a really bad car accident, and I spent that summer in the hospital thinking about where I was heading. I decided to take education more seriously and go to a community college.

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.

The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

I mean, I went to a Catholic boys‘ school for a year, but that was to play hockey. Religion class was quite contentious for me.

Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.

Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.

Every time I plant a seed, He say kill it before it grow, he say kill it before they grow.

The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.

If you don’t feel safe as a child, you can’t learn.

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.

The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That’s one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.